Re: [udig-devel] wps client work

[andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrea, Jody,
since Jody is working on this right now and has seen/built the
jgrasstools already, I will first try to get in sync with him and as
soon as we are successful, come back to you. That should be the most
productive way to go.

Ciao,
Andrea


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Andrea Aime <aaime@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> andrea antonello ha scritto:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Andrea Aime <aaime@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jody Garnett ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>> Just a general heads up - I have a couple of weeks to work on WPS client
>>>> functionality.
>>>>
>>>> My goals are to focus on:
>>>> - ease of use (our existing view is okay but hardly friendly; while I
>>>> understand we cannot have a generic client and expect it to be perfectly
>>>> friendly I think we can do a bit better then raw WKT for geometry)
>>>> - feature collection in and out
>>>> - grid coverage out (not sure how to go about getting them in?) Perhaps
>>>> JGrass can shed some light on if there is a GIS selection convention for
>>>> selecting from a raster? All I can think of is a raster plus "mask"?
>>>>
>>>> Today I am mostly hunting down the different WPS server implementation
>>>> and
>>>> seeing what demo servers are available:
>>>> - 52 North
>>>> - ZooWPS
>>>> - GeoServer WPS Community module
>>>
>>> No demo server available, the raster processes are still kind of a work
>>> in
>>> progress, the two raster2vector and vector2raster ones start but fail
>>> during
>>> execution (still have to check why) and the Sextante ones cannot
>>> run because the bridge towards Sextante rasters is incomplete (Sextante
>>> makes a lot of assumptions about rasters that we don't, still have to
>>> compensate and match our general model to the Sextante "everything
>>> is an arcgrid file" one).
>>
>> Is there a way I could try the jgrasstools algos in your WPS
>> environment? Would that be a big effort? Would you be even interested?
>
> If jgrasstools is using the geotools process api in theory it should be a
> matter of adding a maven dependency to the module.
> In practice even if you're already there some debugging to align either
> side to match will most likely be necessary.
>
> I believe I'm interested, it's just hard to find the time. But if
> it's really just a matter of adding a dependency I can give it a
> spin this Friday.
>
> What is required to use those tools?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
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